Brown Hairy Dwarf Porcupine

Taxobox
name = Brown Hairy Dwarf Porcupine


status = VU
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Erethizontidae
genus = "Sphiggurus"
species = "S. vestitus"
binomial = "Sphiggurus vestitus"
binomial_authority = Thomas, 1899
synonyms = The Brown Hairy Dwarf Porcupine ("Sphiggurus vestitus") is a species of rodent in the Erethizontidae family. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/20633/all Sphiggurus vestitus] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 30 July 2007.
*Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. Pp 1538-1600 "in" Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.